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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 1 week ago:
Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 1 week ago:
Honestly, I like the weekly missions. Back in GO, when there was more discussion about the lack of willingness of players to learn/play new maps, this is one of the solutions I proposed. Its a good, non-invasive way to incentivize playing new and different maps.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 1 week ago:
I mean, in this case it was a complete technical overhaul. Graphically and technically, its much more flexable and more modern.
It is an Overwatch 2 situation in that it had more of its content removed compared to CS:GO though.
- Comment on Is Catholic dating culture often mistaken for incel-style pessimistic desperation? 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.
- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.
Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.
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- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 4 weeks ago:
Pphysical copies are kinda besides the point in terms of ownership and preservation. Just because you own the disk, doesn’t mean you have access to the software on it. DRM, as well as the laws that make it viable, have been around since well before media was sold digitally. Physical copies of the Crew are no more playable now than digital. If you want to be able to keep your games, you need to buy DRM-free, whether that limits you to digital-only or not.
On the other hand, if you want to actually own your games, we need to massively rework copyright law. The fact that a company can sell you a software licence, but add dozens of arbitrary restrictions on when, how and why you can use it is absurd, nonetheless the fact that its always non-transferable and revokable by the company for any reason. None of that should be legal.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 5 weeks ago:
Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).
Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.
So bear. But…
Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?
The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.
- Comment on Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark 1 month ago:
My point, and the conclusion of the video is more of a “Probably, but its also not a big deal.” As he discusses, AI use isn’t completely insignificant, but much of the cost (in all aspects) is in R&D and hardware, rather than the results it produces. Its in the same vein as how yes, you should probably feel guilty for using a paper or disposable platic grocery bag over a reusable one, but even if everyone in the world did so, it would make little difference when companies (who do 99.99% of the damage) will continue doing the exact same thing at every opportunity. As AI is driven by speculation rather than by product sales, not using it doesn’t stop their IP theft, it may reduce their energy use but likely not a lot (esspecially factoring in human cost to complete a task), and it doesn’t stop these companies from manipulating our politics and walking over our laws.
While, technically the video does agree that the answer is ‘Yes’, the majority of the video is about why that Yes needs a half-dozen asterisks. Simplifying it to just a ‘yes’ shifts blame away from the ones doing 99.9% of the damage onto individuals who do a tiny fraction of the damage, and who have much less understanding of or influence over the technology.
- Comment on Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark 1 month ago:
Except it isn’t because the point of the video is in large part, that individual users have little influence over the AI companies. AI companies, as well as their investors and those meant to regulate them (not that those are separate groups) don’t particularly care about the miniscule current revenue to be made. They’re collectively gambling rule of law, money, the environment, ect. on the idea that they will make huge amounts of money when AI becomes a true general-purpose artificial intelligence. The way to fix this isn’t to not use AI (not that it doesn’t help), its to collectively stand against them and actually hold them accountable for their destruction.
- Comment on Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark 1 month ago:
Tl;dw: Yes, but much like the idea of individual carbon footprints, putting the blame on individuals also directs away the the actions of those who invest in, direct, and (don’t) regulate AI companies. Individuals will have little-to-no impact unless there is collective action to regulate AI companies and hold them accountable for their destruction.
- Comment on My VPN on Android fails to reconnect automatically any time the connection is interupted. Why? 1 month ago:
Sorry for pulling you back to an old thread, but you wouldn’t happen to have any other ideas, would you? Since before, I’ve tried everything you suggested. Its an A53, so it really shouldn’t be having trouble with memory or such.
I also found this older Reddit thread which describes basically the same thing, but all the comments are removed, if that helps: old.reddit.com/…/connectivity_issues_with_new_pho…
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 month ago:
Isolated as in only used by a specific region or culture. So in Weibo’s case, only in China with little connection to other countries. Another example would be 2Go, which was quite popular in Africa for years, but unlikely be to be known from anyone outside the region.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 month ago:
Stuff like Weibo are what I was refering to when I was saying more isolated platforms. A lot of regions have their own smaller social media platforms dominated by one or two cultures. As for Instagram and Facebook, those two are largely world-wide but often (again, massive generalization) less ubiquitous compared to social media in the west.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 month ago:
Social media in general (as we think of it) is much more popular in western nations. Thats not to say those outside the west don’t use social media, but it tends to be much more dominated by group-chats (IE WhatsApp, Telegram) and by more isolated platforms or sections of platforms. Of the social media platforms we’ll be familiar with, it tends to be mostly just the most popular and established ones like Instagram, Facebook, and now Tiktok, rather than something still relatively niche and nerdy like Reddit (nonetheless Lemmy).
All that said, again, this is a massive oversimplification talking broadly about trends. We’re talking about thousands of different cultures in entirely different countries and enviroments.
- Comment on What do you do if you encounter a skunk? 1 month ago:
So you’re asking how to encouragd them to avoid you? Mostly, as you implied, you don’t want to suprise them. When you’re in the area, try and stay in the open, and if you can, make a bit of noise like whistling or that. They’ll naturally want to stay away where possible.
- Comment on Can someone recommend me a wireless headset? 2 months ago:
I have the wired version currently, but I need something wireless, and the wireless version is out of my budget unfortunately. $230 CAD.
- Comment on Can someone recommend me a wireless headset? 2 months ago:
Those look good, but unfortunately, at least here in Canada, they $250 - pretty far outside my budget.
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- Comment on Am I a bad artist 😂? 2 months ago:
If all your art looks like the single image provided, then the honest answer would be yes, unfortunately. That said, one image with minimal content isn’t much to go off, and as with any skill, this will change over time, esspecially with practice. Notably, this also looks like something dedicated to a loved one, so at that point intent matter more than artistic skill anyway.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 2 months ago:
From what I’ve heard, its mostly people expecting the game to be more dynamic - more akin to Skyrim’s varied gameplay systems or Fallout: NV’s story and quests. They’re going in expecting something with heavy RPG focus and getting something more action focused.
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 2 months ago:
At this point, I’m mostly just trying to figure out what my options are. Trying to search Mechanical Keyboards dot com just burries me in results with no meaningful way to filter them. PcPartPicker is slightly better, but lacks most of the dedicated keyboard brands. The only site I’d found that offered through filters was Memoey Express, although their selection was also very limited. The other comment suggesting Keeb-Finder was pretty much exactly what I was looking for (although a lot of the results aren’t available in Canada, but its still far better).
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 2 months ago:
I didn’t expect to get my answer from a marketing spam bot (nontheless one that can’t even link the relevant website properly), but here we are. Keeb-Finder was what I was looking for.
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- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 2 months ago:
When you compare that to the amount of memory in video game consoles, they had to keep things simple and couldn’t afford to go fill professional digital audio.
This was my point. The problem wasn’t digital verus analog. It was more that home computers couldn’t run something as complex as a game with resources that high-quality. Even 3D games following 1995 (since that was the start of at-home, 3D games) were running at low resolutions with low poly, low-res assets and lower quality sound.
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 2 months ago:
In 1995 CDs were already well-established and quickly becoming the standard. Dgital audio had already been around for decades, and the main distribution method was digital.
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 2 months ago:
American cops are kinda average compared to the global stage. Most of Europe, for example, has much more restrained, much less incompetent cops. On the other hand, much of the world has cops much worse than the US. I have a family member who lived in one of the less stable African countries, who recounted the time a bunch of cops beat a child for “daring” to wear camo pants.
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 2 months ago:
There’s a couple factors, but to oversimplify, games are just very complicated. If you had a high-end recording studio, you might have a high-end computer (for the time) to digitize recorded audio. You just need to basically record a microphone and be able to play it back, so its not too complicated anyway. In the same vein, for animation and CGI, a studio would have super high-end computers, and even then it would often take days for the computer to process a single high-quality image or much longer for animation.
Compare that to games, where you need to generate an image in about one 30th of a second. At the same time, the game has to also play back sound, handle a bunch of extra input and logic for the game, and has to do it all on a computer that an average family can afford.